'Our online repository houses an annotated bibliography, various research documents and commissioned reports on diverse themes ranging from housing and urban development to sexuality and gender. We hope to make this archive useful to scholars across the world working on the city of Mumbai.'

“URBAN aspirations in GLOBAL Cities” is an international academic collaboration between the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Max Planck Institute (MPI) and Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research (PUKAR). The project aims to compare post-colonial mega-cities in Asia, including Mumbai, Singapore and Shanghai, and understand how the urban community of rapidly growing mega-cities impacts the development of urban aspirations. The project intends to be a platform platform for a community of researchers to collaborate and interact with each other.”